Burn Me, Nadya

"Burn Me, Nadya" (Psych-Ballad/Jazz) - [Themed?]

r/SongAWeek Submissions (2025) -week 9 - 'Innie/Outie'

This week's theme yielded an interesting bloom;

Upon reading the basis of the origin terms I discovered they related to the show 'Severance' which I had never seen.

So I watched it all. Good show.

Thought about doing a riff on the theme song but decided against it when another opportunity arose.

One of my other songs, 'Or Can't I Love You?' had begun to take root in popularity faster than others, building many listens. I studied the source countries of listeners and discovered a disproportionate amount of listens from Indonesian Cities like Jakarta and Medan.

Immediately the term 'Indonesian outing' came to mind as sounding like 'Innie/Outie'

So I endeavored to create a song with Indonesia at its core somehow.

I studied the popular artists in Indonesia and found Bernadya, writer of hit song Satu Bulan, top of Jakartan charts in 2025.

So I wrote this song as an response to the point of view in Satu Bulan.

Satu Bulan is a song about a woman who departs a relationship for healthy reasons but still finds herself wistful and jealous of her past partner and their endeavors. She wonders whether he longs for and remembers her, imagining his next partner as infinitely better.

My song, 'Burn Me, Nadya,' inverts the polarity here and writes from the perspective of a partners whose lover left him and has little else going on for him in the wake, pining after this partner lonesomely in the canals of their own doubt.

If you bring up the English translation of the lyrics for Satu Bulan, you can follow along with my own lyrics to see the inversion in real time; for the first section of my song at least (until 3:30ish)

The instrumentation is based on some guitar lessons I was giving a student wherein we used his knowledge of 'Dust in the Wind' to help understand chord formations and progressions.

Thusly this tune is born; not of innie/Outie' persay, but as an inversion of an Indonesian outing I made.

I hope you enjoy, and halo to any Jakartan fans 😁

Lirik Lagu:

Do you know that I still smell you
lingering on my clothes?
Though it's been many months and more
since I watched you go

You stood by all my outbursts
what made you do, don't know
One thousand petty arguments ago
I watched you fall like snow

& the brightness of your smile was gone
& the warmness of your heart
was long ago
& the feeling of your caring
just a memory I'm staring at in
your afterglow

The truth is that your leaving
hasn't left a single breath
was never a lie to hold you
and to lose you was like a thousand deaths

there's no one to replace you;
no heart to guard but mine
oh burn me up now Nadya
let's rush there, let's do it
one last time

before the brightness of your smile is gone
& the warmness of your heart
was long ago
& the feeling of your caring
just a memory I'm staring at in
your afterglow

(Changeup Funtime)
(Guitar play)

I don't need the rest of the pain anymore
but I'll take it if that's what you're offering to me
Nadya;
Burn Me Up

(Burn Me Up, Knock me down
Set me right , don't mess around
come now Nadya, Don't make me beg
let my pillow become your breast)

+(Burn me up...)
I met you on an outing to Jakarta Indonesia
oh Lord how good to see ya
I cannot wait to please ya
don't burn me up instead
give me your solemn bet
that I can I be to one to leave
your fears and your regrets

(Burn Me Up, Knock me down
Set me right , don't mess around
come now Nadya, Don't make me beg
let my pillow become your breast)

I don't need the rest of the pain anymore
but I'll take it if that's what you're offering to me
Nadya;
Burn Me Up